Blockchain Platform Volavia Soars With Private Air Travel Solution

Private aviation technology company Volavia has launched a blockchain platform for private air travel. Volavia uses smart contracts to manage bookings, itineraries, and payment details on the blockchain, providing full transparency to all parties involved in booking private air charter flights, including passengers, brokers, and aircraft operators.

Volavia’s smart contracts replace the banking, finance, contract, and communications applications currently required to fulfill private jet charter orders. The new service will not disintermediate existing search, availability, and booking service providers. Rather, it claims to provide a decentralized, permissionless private aviation “clearing house’’ service on a fully-integrated platform to provide secure, frictionless, end-to-end transactions, mitigating risk and optimizing efficiencies.

“The over $20 billion private aviation industry lacks adequate booking and payments processes and safeguards, instead relying on legacy systems that are inefficient and vulnerable to attack,” said Volavia co-founder Graham York. “The industry has seen waves of funding for platforms that allow users to search and book travel, but nothing that addresses total security or transparency for payments and client data. Volavia does so, while also being able to seamlessly integrate with existing booking platforms.”

Focusing first on private aviation, Volavia has plans to extend into super-yachts and other aspects of exclusive travel management.

Volavia is backed by a two-tier security token protocol. The first token, VOL, will allow key contributors and industry players to first join a limited community and this will be followed by AERU, a “stablecoin” that will be used for flight payment transactions passing through Volavia. The two tokens will be linked by advanced staking and reputation protocols.